Quote by Idris Elba
Id rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how

Id rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and thats it. Hopefully thats it. – Idris Elba

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You watch yourself age and its hard to feel like a sex symbol. – Idris Elba

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Age
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. Its been that way for a very long time. I hope itll change, but its a matter of forcing that change. – Idris Elba

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Hope
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and thats really excellent – not high-budget movies, but movies none the less. – Idris Elba

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Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything. – Donny Osmond

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Its absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I dont want to emulate that. – George Michael

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington

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